Federal officials rounded up about 700 Canada geese Monday in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where the fowl threaten millions of passengers taking off from nearby Kennedy airport every year.

Birdbrains at the National Park Service spent years blocking USDA agents from culling any geese in the refuge, even after a double-barrel bird strike nearly killed everyone aboard a US Airways flight in 2009.

Thankfully, those days are over — and the 700 geese will be sent to a poultry plant and delivered to food pantries.

Everyone should be happy.

Even the birds — which aren’t native to Jamaica Bay — might prefer a gentle gassing, as opposed to a slice-and-dice through a jet-engine turbine.

But animal activists are screeching that the bird sanctuary “has been opened up to a wildlife slaughter for no good reason.”

No good reason?

An LA-bound Delta flight struck some birds just this past April and had to make an emergency landing at JFK.

Those passengers were lucky.

The next ones might not be — after all, no one should expect a reprise of 2009’s Miracle on the Hudson.

These fine-feathered interlopers are headed to a necessary, if unhappy, fate — and New Yorkers can now feel free to spread their wings just a bit more.